The Imaginaries recently wrapped filming A Cowgirl’s Song, a country music driven feature film and fourth installment in the popular Cowgirls ‘N Angels series, starring the legendary Cheryl Ladd (Charlie’s Angels), Savannah Lee May (Julie And The Phantoms, The Secret Lives Of Cheerleaders) and Darci Lynne Farmer (America’s Got Talent season 12 winner)
More often than not, it seems a musical group’s signature is defined by the vocalist up front. But as much as the legendary group Jethro Tull goes, Ian Anderson’s melodic grizzled vocals and flute gymnastics offered gripping definition, it’s the ripping crunch of Martin Barre’s lead guitar work and his ability to marinate Tull’s songs with emotional heft, are what turns our heads and grabs our guts with sinewy twists, turns and head-on collisions.
Recently, Rick heard about the 80 person capacity Blue Wing Frog restaurant in Front Royal, Virginia whose owners wanted musicians who wrote and performed their own songs. Some traditional-roots songs were cool too, given the Piedmont location, as well as the historical local culture of grassroots music was the music of the region.
Yasmin Williams is one of the most unique guitar aficionados to venture into exploring intriguing realms of the acoustic guitar soundscape. She strums, picks, percussively taps and gently pounds her guitars to add textures, beats and different musical dialogues to her compositions.
Save the date! PRS Guitars will again being hosting their Experience PRS event virtually for 2021. The Experience event, heralded as the Ultimate Guitar Festival for Guitarists and Music Lovers, will stream live on PRS Guitars YouTube channel Thursday, July 8th, 2021 at 7:00 PM EST.
Today, Lindsey Buckingham has announced his forthcoming self-titled LP due out September 17, 2021 on Reprise, alongside the first single, “I Don’t Mind.” Lindsey Buckingham is his first solo release since 2011’s Seeds We Sow and follows his departure from Fleetwood Mac.
This is a classic Guitar International interview with Martin Barre dated June 23, 2009. by Rick Landers During the 1970s, Martin Barre’s gritty guitar work helped propel Jethro Tull up the charts with now classic tracks such as “Aqualung,” “Bungle in the Jungle,” “Cross-Eyed Mary,” and “Locomotive Breath.” While his riffs on “Aqualung” echoed vocalist […]
Clearly, Sin Shake Sin’s new release, “The Masquerade” rages against exploitation and the charismatic manipulation of many, driven by political greed-driven news cycles and page juicing media outlets. It’s an anthemic statement, musically connected to the life rhythms of one of Nashville’s finest singer-songwriters, producers and recording artists, Stacy Hogan.
While playing at a gig at the State Cinema in London, England, the legendary jazz guitarist, Django Rheinhardt (1910-1953), took the time to befriend an 18-year-old British lad just before the teenager joined the Army in 1940. Albert Offenbach served throughout the war as a radar man, keeping his Gibson guitar at his side until WW II ended.
Forty-five years after releasing his debut album, The New Boss Guitar, jazz guitarist George Benson is still going strong. With the upcoming August 25, 2009, release date set for his latest studio album Songs And Stories, the ten-time Grammy winner pays tribute to some of his favorite songwriters and composers. Featuring an all-star line up that includes bassist Marcus Miller, guitarists Lee Ritenour and Toninho Horta, saxophonists Tom Scott and Gerald Albright, among others, Benson and company come together to produce an album that is not only a tribute to great songwriters, it is also a reflection of more than four decades of experience by one of jazz’s greatest instrumentalists and vocalists.
